SSS Slow To A Crawl Waiting For A Late Easter This Year

U.S. store sales for the week ending March 29 were especially weak, but both store sales reports point out that Easter falls three weeks later this year. This creates a bit of a problem when making year over year comparisons. Despite the weak sales, both reports seems to think that today’s weakness will be absorbed by Easter sales later this month.

The ICSC-Goldman store sales index was up 0.6% year over year, compared to up 1.7% Y/Y the week prior.

The Redbook store sales index was up 2.3% year over year, compared to up 2.1% Y/Y the week prior.